Issue 18, 2015

Stimuli-responsive Pickering emulsions: recent advances and potential applications

Abstract

Pickering emulsions possess many advantages over traditional surfactant stabilized emulsions. For example, Pickering emulsions impart better stability against coalescence and, in many cases, are biologically compatible and environmentally friendly. These characteristics open the door for their use in a variety of industries spanning petroleum, food, biomedicine, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Depending on the application, rapid, but controlled stabilization and destabilization of an emulsion may be necessary. As a result, Pickering emulsions with stimuli-responsive properties have, in recent years, received a considerable amounts of attention. This paper provides a concise and comprehensive review of Pickering emulsion systems that possess the ability to respond to an array of external triggers, including pH, temperature, CO2 concentration, light intensity, ionic strength, and magnetic field. Potential applications for which stimuli-responsive Pickering emulsion systems would be of particular value, such as emulsion polymerization, enhanced oil recovery, catalyst recovery, and cosmetics, are discussed.

Graphical abstract: Stimuli-responsive Pickering emulsions: recent advances and potential applications

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
29 Jan 2015
Accepted
27 Mar 2015
First published
31 Mar 2015

Soft Matter, 2015,11, 3512-3529

Author version available

Stimuli-responsive Pickering emulsions: recent advances and potential applications

J. Tang, P. J. Quinlan and K. C. Tam, Soft Matter, 2015, 11, 3512 DOI: 10.1039/C5SM00247H

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